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“Medical malpractice and systemic racism are as interwoven as a spider’s web. Should a dragline break, the spider spins its silk and the web is easily rewoven, like systemic racism, it is all linked. Sterilizations, forced or coerced, without consent, is the deadliest entrapment effectively eliminating generations of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples’ lineages. This strategy of genocide continues its silent covert assault, with or without the knowledge of the survivors of sterilizations. Though sterilizations are being brought to the forefront, there remains a lack of willingness to talk about sterilizations, (understandably for survivors) nonetheless WE continue to champion change. I hold up my hands in honor of the ‘Fire Keepers’ for speaking out and taking a stand against the ongoing sterilizations in Canada and internationally. For all the survivors of sterilizations, your voices are heard, and your heroism is boundless.”
Morningstar Mercredi
“This book centres the lived experiences of survivors, from their place of unparalleled expertise, in a space that demands deference to the impacts as they themselves describe them.”
Alisa R. Lombard"
“Indigenous people have taught me the solutions come from the women, and are grounded on the land, and in life.”
Karen Stote
Memoir - Finalist, First People's Publishing,
2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards
Morningstar Mercredi wrote her memoir as a form of activism to speak to the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and men in Canada. Morningstar’s story, like thousands of Indigenous, Metis and Inuit people, describes how systemic racism, colonialism and apartheid affected her, as a mother she became determined to come to terms with her personal struggles only to realize how severely the historical influences impacted her family.
Morningstar takes the reader through her survival and aftermath of post trauma, as a result of the institutions mandated to ‘beat the Indian out’ of hundreds of thousands of children, as a day school survivor, Morningstar is adamant her ‘warrior spirit’ was not broken. She attributes this to her maternal lineage, her ‘grannies’ as well as the love of her ‘grandfathers’.
Morningstar understood she was traumatized by generational impact as well as being a day school survivor. Recounting sexual abuse, family violence, poverty, racism, and overcoming her own alcoholism, her inherent strength to survive a myriad of historical atrocities is notable. Historical atrocities, which to date, are affirmed as similar experiences within generations of Indigenous, Metis, and Inuit peoples throughout Canada, documented in the Truth and Reconciliation Report two decades after her memoir was published in 2006.
Matthew is twelve years old and lives in Saskatchewan, Canada. He is of mixed heritage: his mother is Dene Metis, and his father is English, Scottish, and Irish. Because his parents are divorced, Matthew spends one year with each of them in turn. This summer, his mother is taking him to Fort Chipewyan, the oldest settlement in western Canada, and the home of many Chipewyan, Cree, and Metis Indigenous people. Since Matthew was raised in the city, this will be his first time participating in some of the traditional Native activities, such as smoking and drying fish. During his time at Fort Chipewyan, Matthew meets many of his relations, joins in a Dene drum dance, and gets a pair of beautiful moccasins made for him by a talented beadworker. He also learns a little about what it's like to live off the land.
Fort Chipewyan Homecoming, finalist in the Silver Birch young reader's choice award in Ontario.
Poetry by Morningstar Mercredi, Volume V Gatherings
'Northern Wind Song' and 'Long Wind Walk'
First Edition of Sacred Bundles Unborn is a limited edition and no longer available.
Published 2021- 2024
